Bottle-stopper.



No. 782,151. PATENTED FEB. '7, 1905. E. J. LOWRY.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLIUATION FILED APE. 9.1904.

UNITED STATES Patented February 7, 1905.

PATENT EEIcE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,151, dated February 7, 1905.

Application filed April 9, 1904. Serial No. 202,455.

To 10/! It'll/mt it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. LowRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Republic, in the county of Ferry and State of WTashington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bottle-stoppers, the invention being designed with special reference to squirt or jet bottles and receptacles embodying a small nozzle through which the liquid is forced or squirted in jets or small quantities by jerking the bottle or subjecting the same to quick longitudinal movements or thrusts.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a stopper for a bottle of the character referred to, which stopper is supported on the nozzle so that it automatically closes and opens orseats and unseats itself, the movements of the stopper being governed by the position or inclination of the bottle or receptacle and the motion imparted thereto. The stopper always remains seated when the bottle or receptacle is in an upright position, and thereby excludes dirt or other foreign material, insects, and the like.

\Vith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangementof parts herein fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of the neck portion of a bottle or receptacle provided with a nozzle and showing the stopper-controlling device associated with the nozzle. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the nozzle inclined for the purpose of unseating the stopper. Fig. 3 is a dctail perspective view of the stopper and its support.

Like reference-numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

referring to the drawings, 1 designates the neck of a bottle or other receptacle, and 2 a discharge-nozzle fitted thereto. Under the preferred embodiment of this invention the nozzle is provided with a laterally-pro ecting lug 3, having an opening extending therethe stopper-support being so disposed withreference to the stopper and the pivotal point of the supporting-lever that the stopper is normally held closed and the closing of the stopper rendered certain when the bottle or receptacle is placed in an upright position, as shown in Fig. 1. For the sake of economy the supporting-lever is made from a single length of wire which is bent to form thearms 6 and 8, which carry the stopper and weight, respectively, while the intermediate portion of the wire is bent laterally to form the journal 4:, which passes through the opening in the lug 3, one of the arms being bent partially around the other at one side of the journal and the lug 3, as shown at 10.

I do not desire to be restricted to the use 0 a lever or stopper support constructed of wire bent into the proper form, as it will be obvious that the lever may be made in other ways and that the lever-arms may be differently bent or disposed without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new isl. The combination with a discharge-now zle, of a stopper-arm pivotally connected to the nozzle and carrying a stopper, and a weight-arm fulcrumed from the nozzle and overlying the stopper-mm.

2. The combination with a discharge-nozzle, of a lever fulcrumed thereon made of a single length of material and carrying at one end a stopper and at the opposite enda weight, that portion of the lever carrying the weight overlying and resting upon that portion of the lever carrying the stopper.

3. The combination With a discharge-nozend below the normal level of the stopper, TO zle, of a lever fulcrumed thereon and formed and a Weight carried at the free ends.

of a single length of Wire, carrying at one In testimony whereoflaffix my signaturein end a stopper, pro ected downward from sald i presence of two wltnesses.

then formed with a return-bend and passed stopper, then transversely across the nozzle, EDWARD J. LONRY through the fulcrum-support, then up and W itnesses: around the transverse portion, then bent in a VH1. (3. BRO N, downwardly-pro ecting curve w1th its free THOMAS M. DONNELLY. 

